Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction. — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints. — Helen Lynd Copy Share Image
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side,… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws… — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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